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  • Where do the parties stand? Addressing Māori health inequity

    … Summary We look at questions of Māori health equity in the fourth in the series “Where do … Communication Centre survey need to be seen in the context of the legislation, the Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) Act 2022, … access to health services, poorer quality of care, and a failure of health services to improve outcomes for Māori, all …
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  • Preventing outbreaks of COVID-19 in NZ associated with air travel from Australia: New Modelling study of alternatives to quarantine

    … In this new study, we estimated the risk of COVID-19 outbreaks associated with air travel from … (on days 3 and 12 in NZ), combined with self-reporting of symptoms and contact tracing, and mask use by the passengers … devices can potentially detect changes in temperature and heart rate, and so alert individuals and health authorities …
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  • Why we need an Aotearoa Centre for Disease Control (CDC)

    … organisation would be more effective, and make better use of resources, if it functioned as a ‘distributed’ centre with … nodes across universities and other organisations. Much of the resources already exist, with an established Crown Research Institute (ESR), and groups of expert infectious disease researchers and practitioners …
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  • New report shows how regional plans could transform freshwater quality

    … highlights valuable and timely lessons for better ways of safeguarding and improving freshwater quality identified by a new report on the failure to protect high-country lakes from degradation. The … beyond high-country lakes and vital to the success of councils’ next generation of regional plans, which are …
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  • Five key reasons why NZ should have an official inquiry into the response to the COVID-19 pandemic

    … also identify lessons for the organisation and resourcing of public health more broadly. Fortunately, NZ has a fairly solid track record of official inquiries that have resulted in improved systems … health system response (eg, for treatment of cancer and heart disease). It is also possible that the harm to the …
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  • Lessons learned from a remote blood pressure lowering trial in Aotearoa

    … offer the opportunity to deliver and assess the impact of clinical trials remotely, something which researchers are … blog we share the lessons we learnt during the conduct of SALTS, a remote blood pressure lowering trial in Aotearoa, … plan to reduce it 5 . If we want to see a big reduction in heart attacks and strokes in our country then we must reduce …
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  • Reducing tobacco retail availability: how could this be achieved and what evidence supports the NZ Government’s proposals?

    … for the Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 goal. This blog is one of a series examining key aspects of the plan to help inform the debate and submissions. Here … we examine the proposals to reduce the retail availability of tobacco products and find these have a good evidence base. …
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  • Will the Health Star Rating labels improve people’s diets?

    … labelling is one tool to help control the epidemics of obesity and diabetes. Everyone agrees that on its own, the … Panel (NIP) used in NZ does not achieve the goal of facilitating healthier food choices. But suggestions around more consumer-friendly front-of-pack labels have been fiercely contested by industry and …
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  • A 100 years ago: The worst year of the First World War for New Zealand

    … The year 1917 was the worst year of the First World War for New Zealand from a premature … presented on this topic at a Symposium at Te Papa (Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa) and in this blog we … we described. We also consider to what extent some of these deaths may have been preventable with knowledge …
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  • Potential new regulatory options for e-cigarettes/ANDS in NZ

    … scientific evidence-base regarding the benefits and risks of these types of products remains uncertain. The health-based policy … is also minimal. In this blog post we outline some of the possible regulatory options around e-cigarettes …
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